7 Quotes & Sayings By Donna J Haraway

Donna J. Haraway is a feminist scholar, writer, scientist and activist. She is known for her work in science and technology studies, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of biology. She has also made important contributions to feminist theory and animal studies, and to materialist feminism Read more

Her research interests span the fields of science and technology studies, feminist science studies, biotechnology, animal studies, reproductive technology and ecological politics. Haraway's books and articles have been translated into many languages and she is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and universities around the world.

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From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. Donna J. Haraway
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time,...
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. Donna J. Haraway
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All readings are also mis-readings, re-readings, partial readings, imposed readings, and imagined readings of a text that is originally and finally never simply there. Just as the world is originally fallen apart, the text is always already enmeshed in contending practices and hopes. Donna J. Haraway
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By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our onthology; it gives us our politics. the cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation. Donna J. Haraway
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism. Donna J. Haraway
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Grammar is politics by other means. Donna J. Haraway